Re: your first paragraph, if a character is behaving and/or thinking in a way that I feel is OOC, then the “but they’re under duress” reasoning holds no weight with me. It is perfectly possible to write a character under duress who is not behaving/thinking in an OOC manner. Extreme situations do not make characters different people.
There was a deadline—I looked it up—96 hours to administer the vaccine to Scully.
Yes, of course he was cutting it close. But the fic makes it sound as though he had only seconds - maybe a minute or two at most – remaining to administer the injection. Nowhere does FTF indicate this is the case. The point where timing becomes truly vital is after he’s administered the antidote. Up until that point, he’s in a mad hurry, but we really have no way of knowing exactly how much extra time he could have theoretically taken to get there.
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Date: 2012-02-24 08:02 am (UTC)There was a deadline—I looked it up—96 hours to administer the vaccine to Scully.
Yes, of course he was cutting it close. But the fic makes it sound as though he had only seconds - maybe a minute or two at most – remaining to administer the injection. Nowhere does FTF indicate this is the case. The point where timing becomes truly vital is after he’s administered the antidote. Up until that point, he’s in a mad hurry, but we really have no way of knowing exactly how much extra time he could have theoretically taken to get there.